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| From Kenya to Kansas, the World Rejoices |
Here is another quilt with a central White House theme - actually the White House seemed to recur frequently in the Journey of Hope in America quilt collection. This detailed, colorful quilt portrays the celebration of the election of the first African American President. People of all ethnic backgrounds, occupations, and social statuses exult in the victory. This quilt was aptly named From Kenya to Kansas, the World Rejoices. The detailed quilting is called applique, where instead of being sewn into the background, the figures are sewn on top of the background. A special machine stitch is applied around the outline of each colored piece of fabric to hold it in place. Once again, this quilt has detailed topstitching run all around the figures, which unifies the quilt and adds movement and excitement. The U.S. flag is represented with stars and wavy stripes. How many other flags can you find?
2 comments:
That must have been fun to design! Tough challenge on counting the flags - 3 or 4? and maybe some of those aren't even flags :p
I agree it is a challenge - I only saw 3 but now that you point it out I found a 4th one!
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